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Monday, March 10, 2014

Black Box by Cassia Leo Blog Tour Review and Giveaway!

♥ Three fateful
encounters....♥ Two heart-breaking tragedies....♥ One last chance to get it right.

From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love
story about rewriting destiny.

Over the course of five years, Mikki and Crush cross paths on three separate
occasions. Their first encounter changes Mikki's life forever, but their second
meeting leaves them both buried beneath the emotional wreckage of a violent
attack. Mikki is left with more questions and grief than she can handle, while
Crush is forced to forget the girl who saved his life.

Now nineteen years old, Mikki Gladstone has decided she's tired of the
mind-numbing meds. She books a flight to Los Angeles to end her life far away
from her loving, though often distant, family.

Twenty-one-year-old Crush has always channeled his blackest thoughts into his
music, but he's never had great aspirations. He decides to fly to Los Angeles
to record a demo of the only song he's never performed in public; a song he
wrote for a girl he doesn't even know: Black Box. He has no expectations of
fame and he's never felt like his life had any purpose... until he meets Mikki
in Terminal B.

When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has
any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their
history and realize that fate has more in store for them than just another love
story.

Crush Mikki

BLACK BOX PURCHASE LINKS

Amazon UK:
http://amzn.to/1dNmKMC

iTunes US:
http://bit.ly/blackboxitunes

iTunes UK:
http://bit.ly/1ffAjpG

Kobo US/CA:
http://bit.ly/blackboxkobo

AUTHOR BIO

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo grew up in California and
has lived in three different countries. She loves to travel and her dream is to
one day score a record deal based on her awesome shower singing skills. She is
the author of the Shattered Hearts series (Relentless,
Pieces of You, Bring Me Home, Abandon) and the Luke and Chase series.

Staring into Mikki’s green eyes, I swear I’m looking into my
own. She’s hiding something from me that I haven’t quite figured out yet, but
I’m positive it has to do with her trip to L.A. There has to be a reason
someone as skittish as her decided to have coffee with me rather than go home
when her flight was canceled. And there’s definitely a reason greater than
curiosity for the question she just asked me.

If it weren’t her asking, this would be the point in our
conversation where I begin to suspect her of being an undercover cop or
journalist. But it is Mikki. And something about this girl tells me she’s not
here to find out what happened in a dark parking lot three years ago.

“That’s a trick question,” I reply. “If I tell you I’ve never
killed anyone, then you’ll think I’m a good guy and you’ll stay, because even
though it’s not a very exciting answer, it means you’re safe. But if I tell you
I’ve killed someone, you may find it intriguing or frightening. Either way,
intrigued or scared, you’ll probably try to get the fuck away from me, and I
don’t think I’m ready for that.”

She smiles as she looks down at her fingers, which she’s tapping
on the surface of the bar. “That’s a real suave way to dodge the question. It
also sounds like something a murderer would say.”

“Really?”

She looks up and meets my gaze again. “Who did you kill?”

I pause for a moment as I try to figure out where she’s going
with this conversation. Then it hits me. “Do you want to die?”

She continues to look down at her hands, which are still
trembling as she fidgets with her silver thumb-ring. I get an urge to grab her
hand again, to stop the trembling and fidgeting, but I don’t.

“I’m sorry. I guess that was kind of a stupid question. I was
just wondering why a pretty girl like you would hang out with me when you could
be at home in your warm bed with your pjs on. Or out with your friends … or
your boyfriend.”

She finally chuckles. “So, accusing me of wanting to die is your
way of avoiding my question or is it just a really messed-up way of asking me
if I have a boyfriend?”

“It’s just me being a total dick. And … do you have a
boyfriend?”

“No.” She looks up and fixes me with a steely glare. “Most guys
don’t appreciate a girl who’s crazy and also doesn’t put out.” I’m not quite sure how to respond to this
statement. It’s probably best to change the subject or reach for a joke. “Yeah,
I know how you feel. Most girls don’t appreciate a guy who can cite Shakespeare
and won’t put out. Actually, I think that’s a line from Macbeth.”

Her glare melts into a reluctant smile. “You’re not a total
dick.”

“Still not putting out.”

BLACK BOX
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Georgette’s Review:

Wow! Just wow!

I received an arc for an
honest review...

Cassia Leo words cannot
describe how beautiful this story was!

The emotional turmoil
that Mikki goes through really tears your heart to pieces. I can't imagine
being that person and not have the feelings she went through in this book.

And then there's the
guilt and anguish that Crush feels for things that happened in his past.

Take the two of them and
put them together and the story that's told is one hell of a ride! Fate knows
when two souls are in need of each other and it came to life here.

It took me longer than
it should have to read this book as I kept putting it down to try to get my
emotions in check. I really loved this story and hope all the readers will too.